Michael Chimento

This study investigates why golden eagle juveniles delay emigration despite acquiring flight skills, finding that external factors, not skill mastery, primarily influence the timing of independence.

The paper introduces an R package called STbayes for Bayesian analysis of social transmission using network-based diffusion models, demonstrating its ability to distinguish individual and social learning contributions.

The paper studies a human-wildlife conflict arms race between Sydney residents and cockatoos, showing social learning drives adaptation and policy impacts can shift conflict.

Pigeons use gaze-following to detect predator location in flocks, responding to the duration of conspecific gaze rather than other cues.

The paper introduces 3D-SOCS, a system for collecting behavioral data on wild birds using synchronized video, and finds it can estimate 3D postures and characterize visual fields in great tits.

This study shows that great tits adjust their social learning strategies based on environmental changes, using social information more when payoffs and environments differ.

This study uses simulations to show how movement and social rules affect network structure and the spread of behavior, with varying impacts depending on transmission rules and network dynamics.